valery-barysok / kcp

kcp is a Kubernetes-like control plane for workloads on many clusters

kcp

Overview

kcp is a Kubernetes-like control plane focusing on:

• A control plane for many independent, isolated “clusters” known as workspaces
• Enabling API service providers to offer APIs centrally using multi-tenant operators
• Easy API consumption for users in their workspaces
• Flexible scheduling of workloads to physical clusters
• Transparent movement of workloads among compatible physical clusters
• Advanced deployment strategies for scenarios such as affinity/anti-affinity, geographic replication, cross-cloud replication, etc.

kcp can be a building block for SaaS service providers who need a massively multi-tenant platform to offer services to a large number of fully isolated tenants using Kubernetes-native APIs. The goal is to be useful to cloud providers as well as enterprise IT departments offering APIs within their company.

Documentation

Please visit docs.kcp.io/kcp for our documentation.

Contributing

We ❤️ our contributors! If you're interested in helping us out, please check out contributing to kcp.

Getting in touch

There are several ways to communicate with us:

• The #kcp-dev channel in the Kubernetes Slack workspace
• Our mailing lists:
  • kcp-dev for development discussions
  • kcp-users for discussions among users and potential users
• Subscribe to the community calendar for community meetings and events
  • The kcp-dev mailing list is subscribed to this calendar
• See recordings of past community meetings on YouTube
• See upcoming and past community meeting agendas and notes
• Browse the shared Google Drive to share design docs, notes, etc.
  • Members of the kcp-dev mailing list can view this drive

Additional references

• KubeCon EU 2021: Kubernetes as the Hybrid Cloud Control Plane Keynote - Clayton Coleman (video)
• OpenShift Commons: Kubernetes as the Control Plane for the Hybrid Cloud - Clayton Coleman (video)
• TGI Kubernetes 157: Exploring kcp: apiserver without Kubernetes
• K8s SIG Architecture meeting discussing kcp - June 29, 2021
• Let's Learn kcp - A minimal Kubernetes API server with Saiyam Pathak - July 7, 2021